The html-webpack-plugin simplifies the creation of HTML files for webpack bundles, streamlining the development workflow by automatically injecting bundled assets. Comparing versions 5.2.0 and 5.1.0, the core functionality remains consistent, focusing on easing HTML generation for webpack projects. Both versions share identical dependencies, ensuring dependency stability with packages like lodash, tapable, loader-utils, pretty-error, html-minifier-terser, and @types/html-minifier-terser. This minimizes the risk of breaking changes when upgrading.
The key difference observed lies in the devDependencies. Version 5.2.0 upgrades webpack to version 5.23.0 compared to "^5.20.0" in versin 5.1.0. Also html-loader has been updated from version 1.3.2 to 2.0.0. Therefore, the biggest change is probably the upgrade of a major version of html-loader. This might imply slight improvements or changes in how HTML files are processed during development. Also, developers should upgrade Webpack on their setup to version 5.23.0 if they want to benefit from the new features and changes. For developers using specific loaders or older webpack configurations, careful testing after the upgrade is recommended to ensure compatibility and prevent unexpected build issues. Both versions maintain the same peer dependency on webpack "^5.20.0", meaning the plugin is designed to work seamlessly with webpack 5.20 and above, promising stability.
The are not vulnerabilities for the version 5.2.0 of the package html-webpack-plugin